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  1. SouthSoundTree-

    Snap cuts... How big do you go?

    In my way of looking at it, you're doing most of the Magic Cut without the bypass. I want a hinge I can count on, or no hinge. On bigger pieces, and especially if you're double cutting or reaching across, you have a much easier time doing a full bypass cut for the MC, than ensure you have a...
  2. SouthSoundTree-

    Snap cuts... How big do you go?

    I'll PM my address.;) No luck. Its actually very straight forward. No illusion or anything. experiment with a stick, or a short log somehow held in place. It will make more sense. You won't have the weight working the same way. Maybe just cut it up, then add a little weight with a rock/cinder...
  3. SouthSoundTree-

    Snap cuts... How big do you go?

    Seems to me that if you can assess the lean/ plumbness, absent wind, physics is physics. Its a matter of how much trunk can stand up on a deep undercut without sagging and/ or barberchairing. 8' easy. Gotta know when you've undermined enough, rationally/ thoughtfully. If you wait to see sag/...
  4. SouthSoundTree-

    Snap cuts... How big do you go?

    Brock, you're intentionally doing an easier job with the full dutchman than a conventional face-cut, but that's small potatoes. Absent is fighting the pull line out from under the chunk, tying the pull line on the climb line, pulling up two ropes, tying the pull line. making sure your climb...
  5. SouthSoundTree-

    Snap cuts... How big do you go?

    If in doubt, 811. I bid my jobs, so ask about utilities then. I broke a water line at the top edge of an abruptly steep hillside with a spar. You don't find out until later, sometimes. It wasn't Hollywood.
  6. SouthSoundTree-

    Snap cuts... How big do you go?

    Magic cut. No pushing, no pulling.
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